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1. Does your organization deploy interactive data
visualization solutions as part of your BI environment?
What benefits could you achieve by making greater use of innovative BI technologies?
Why should your organization adopt predictive
analytics?
Exploiting Innovative
Technologies in BI and
Big Data Analytics
Data is worth nothing without the right technologies to facilitate its transformation
into meaningful information – delivered to the right people in a timely manner – for
improved decision making.
Forrester recently conducted a survey with 330 global business intelligence (BI)
decision makers and found strong correlations between overall company success
and adoption of innovative BI, analytics, and Big Data tools. Is your company
harnessing the latest innovations in BI technology to achieve your business goals?
Sources
Competitive Differentiation Through Innovation in Business Intelligence, A commissioned study conducted by Forrester
Consulting on behalf of SAP, April 2013
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Base: 330 Global enterprise BI decision makers
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Base: 131 BI decision makers (79 with negative to 4% growth, 52 with 15% or more growth)
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Base: 47 BI decision makers (with 15% or more growth)
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Base: 131 BI decision makers (with negative to 4% growth, and with 15% or more growth)
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Base: 131 Global enterprise BI decision makers
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Base: 52 BI decision makers (with 15% or more growth)
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of better performing
companies allow business
users to build and deploy
BI, compared to only
Global enterprise BI decision makers use information to:1
better
compete
in production
proof of
concept
make better
business
decisions
meet internal
reporting
requirements
In better performing companies:
Business Benefits: IT Benefits:
But, use only 10%
of data for analysis and
decision making.
Better performing companies (growing 15%+ per annum) report greater
BI success.
81% have
tighter integration
of Big Data with BI.3
75%
70%
66%
43%
4%
don’t
know
30%
Ensure compliance and reduce risk
Improve business planning
Monitor process performance
Improve customer satisfaction
Improve satisfaction levels from the business
Respond to business requests faster
Reduce manual report generation
Develop critical applications more quickly
Increase effectiveness of IT investments
87% of
better performing
companies use
predictive analytics.6
in companies with
less growth.4
Interactive BI allows for agility in the face of ever shorter business
cycles, and far-reaching changes in the competitive landscape.
of better performing organizations
deploy interactive data visualization
solutions, compared to only
The more you
enable business
with self-service BI
technologies, the
fewer things get
lost in translation.
Predictive analysis enables you to move from
sense and respond to predict and act.
Make better informed business decisions
in companies with less growth.5
65%
19% IT Manager, chemicals
manufacturer, Australia
75%
41%
In fact 42%
report having a highly agile
BI environment, compared
to only 13% in companies
that haven’t experienced as
much growth. 2